June 25, 2014

WHAT IF THE IRS WEAPONIZED ITSELF? “For understandable reasons, the IRS scandal has largely focused on the political question of whether the White House deliberately targeted its opponents. To date there’s no evidence that it did. That’s good for the president, but it may not be good for the country, because if the administration didn’t target opponents, that would mean the IRS has become corrupt all on its own. . . . The Democratic party today is, quite simply, the party of government and the natural home of the managerial class. It is no accident, as the Marxists say, that the National Treasury Employees Union, which represents the IRS, gave 94 percent of its political donations during the 2012 election cycle to Democratic candidates openly at war with the Tea Party — the same group singled out by Lois Lerner. The American Federation of Government Employees, which represents the VA, gave 97 percent of its donations to Democrats at the national level and 100 percent to Democrats at the state level.”

Republicans have been acting like the IRS is Obama's catspaw, but I think its more likely that things are the other way around. The public employee unions are the permanent ruling class. Obama has served a temporary purpose, and his veto pen will continue to be useful for the next 2 1/2 years, but then he'll be out the door. The bureaucrats are forever and they aren't going to pass meekly from the scene just because of bourgeois democracy.

The Tea Party would do well to put its cross-hairs on the bureaucracy more so than the White House.

When will everyone realise that whilst both parties claimed to give up on the spoils system, only the Republicans actually did.

When a Republican is in the WH they seem to try to prove how 'unbiased' they are by putting as many (if not more) Democrat supporters into positions of power. When a Democrat is the WH 'only' Democrat supporters are ever put in those positions.

It's simple enough, return to the open and honest spoils system. At least that way you'd have a periodic 'de-worming'.

Democrats are the party of command and control. They would not leave political operations to a grass roots, self-organized, you might say entrepreneurial organization. What fun is government unless you are commanding these operations?

We have no emails showing Obama's role because they implemented a plan from the start to hide the evidence. What organization keeps email backup for only six months? No backup would have been better, but six months is enough to plausibly deny wrongdoing while still deleting the evidence.

1920's numbers betting and bookies kept their records on flash paper, to be burned immediately if raided by the police. Inconvenient, but useful.

Modern government operations keep their records on local computer drives. Just 3 minutes to pull them out and throw them away.

When a hard drive crashes, all the files become unreadable without technical help. The operating system, emails, Word documents, and PowerPoint sources need to be restored. Where is the record of that restoration for Lerner and her six associates. Obama and his seven IRS dwarves.

First of all, it has been conclusively shown the IRS already is a digital, economic weapon which Obama has used for years - and continues to use - to bludgeon ideological opponents bloody.

Second, each and every IRS office with a Criminal Investigation Division - something around 100-150 offices nationwide - has a fully armed, fully capable SWAT unit staffed by from 6 to as many as a couple of dozen paramilitary-trained agents. Like any of the approximately 1,500 IRS CID agents, SWAT members are armed with their SIG-Sauer 9mm semi-auto pistols, (with magazine capacity of from 17-20 rounds). IRS SWAT's primary arm is the M-16/M-4 military automatic weapon (some use H&K 9mm auto weapons ordinarily used in anti-terrorist agencies). The units also utilize scoped bolt-action sniper rifles of 7.62mm caliber and better. There are reportedly even a few Barrett .50 call rifles (designed for ultra-long range sniping and to kill lightly armored vehicles). They also use short-barrel shotguns loaded with buckshot and/or sabot-slugs. And of course they are swathed in body-armor from head to toe, using military-grade helmets and goggles. IRS SWAT members train and re-qualify on these weapons at least quarterly, in some cases monthly. Plus there is the usual array of tear- and pepper-gas, flashbangs and the like. Because it's well known that folks who claim their deceased Aunt Minnie as a dependent need to have kill teams go in and slaughter them before they can deduct again.

For this to be true you would have to believe that the IRS, without any direction from the WH, coordinated with other agencies including the FBI, DOJ, ATF, OSHA, etc. And also willingly provided confidential tax returns and forms to outside groups like ProPublica and the Human Rights Campaign. That's a lot of risky lawlessness (with real consequences if caught) to undertake without certainty of rescue from Obama.

Unless you believe it's a total coincidence that all of those federal agencies - FBI, ATF, OSHA, OJ - just happened to decide to investigate Catherine Englebrect/True the Vote at the same time.

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